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and whatever life is left for the gas victims they should get proper treatment so they can spend the rest of their lives in good health. they are gas and water victim children grow up born into deformities and their future has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live a proper life and so that their parents do not take them to some sort of burden which i think. you're welcome. i love and trust i. good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only some rough time to lie and i'm joined on the line by son jay very much who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also was a survivor of the terrible disaster in one nine hundred eighty four so sanjay can you tell us a bit about what happened to you on the night of december third one thousand nine hundred four well i was born in july before i was a few months already. so and well better and ready then
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i asked myself so because i had no one with me and the better looking at my school . she was like they all died that i had and. i would be. like. i write another book in my own eye that you will and i are in every. sunday was. his sister was nine his elder brother i mean he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of. my family old runaways i was told later two of them died in hospital. my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters were nearby. the other two are missing.
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they lost their parents and three sisters and two brothers all in one nine. my family members died because of this that. we and his sister will. be in the church. but it is of course it will be thousands. but according to the people who are carrying out bodies from the from the how. they went out into ten thousand people died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my brother came up and are going to have to learn again but then automatically i might have got involved in the fight and i joined late and i think for what i get it.
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now i realize no wall only you and i factory. got a nice case they are playing men you know know how condiment in the factories how condiment in the soil on the factories and they are like chickens again sorry left actively are not paying attention towards them. when we did this study we just want to assist extend those chemical contamination within the factory and outside and see if there is a link is it justified killing it has been going on for all you know really pesticides because they got to me decide to justify having it in using a list of all the leg room and mockery an arsonist. i phone very high in most of the day and the thought and want to die one of the phone mostly as i hear it wasn't
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in fact been invented offline i did this photo get out and you can still see it in the structure of the thing and yes well it's not surprising that the ground has a very high amount of them ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think established very clearly that union carbide knew in advance as early as nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we are facing today they knew this was going down and they and they went ahead with this project despite that specific knowledge as early as one nine hundred seventy three union carbide engineers or warning the company that the plant presents an unusual challenge in that there's no nearby running body of water into which waste can be discharge so from the design stage waste disposal plant was a was a major concern. a lot of waste streams from the plant emptied into the area of the plant known as the solar evaporation
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pond area. here this is where the waste in toxic sludge were dumped basically and carby we're standing right on top of it and the other side is you can see there used to be a small leak which you know and carbonate also used as a dumping ground for they waste people depended on the water from the link so they drank it and it cost and pedantic. union carbide from the design stage then the bhopal plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was a there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply. so they believe that they can get. by evil braiding it and and then when they had like some kind of sludge so they took all of us from the bones and they dumped here and there and you see this black lining. underneath the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if. it can get.
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away from the. lining and then need to go on every day i don't hear. we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now leeching through the aqua for and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evacuation was before very high was groovy you see it was using. only one and one of these will be an isolated recent one. off on the fact. that is still being gone dominated and people are forced to did water because they do not have any other choice of all the way and it will remain
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a source of pollution for this area until it is revealed the party that can do that is you know the december will mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at a union carbide india ltd facility in bhopal and even today continues to evoke strong emotions globally and rightfully so we're saddened however that despite all that has been written about the tragedy in the past twenty five years so many misconceptions still exist about union carbide and it's wrong the government of india is the appropriate entity to address any i'm going to express by the people of bhopal. we are saddened by the fact that the site remains on really adding to the tragedy that has occurred the site today is in the hands of the state government my dear pradesh the state government. and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary of dow chemical dow chemical. two thousand one
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third the boards of carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principal polluter pays principle is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter the polluter should not be able to externalize the costs of pollution onto society at large or up to third party it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after private polluters. so no no no no no no no that is one of. many life people. drinking contaminated water you see this. in the neighborhood and then we got a lot of this bomb test bed every founded highly contaminated but they do not have
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any other choice and they are drinking this water. it would like sometime two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i was eased back to my home there was a letter written by my brother that. i'm going to die in a few men eggs so take care of yourselves and he was like he was laying on his back in this room so i had to phone one of my one of my brother's friends and they said . both of us took my brother to the hospital and finally he had survived that. before that he had run into a jungle where food he had tried to set him off fire. he didn't have any physical problems his sickness was that of paranoia and fear. if anyone
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came over when she would go and hide in the bathroom he used to say she could hear a voice in his mind. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know what i'm charging welcome to the big picture.
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moves from stunts on t.v. dot com. i believe that a war inhales with time but in both bog if it's got the war. to get made up on back if we blame each other for everything then no solution will come. that the government blames the company we blame the government part of the government suffers the company suffers and most importantly the people of bhopal suffer. i don't remember actually who was the media person who asked me this question who do you blame to actually according to you. before i answer to this question he said your godman there he said to me your government's like ditching you they have been detained people from. so if you're gonna listen or village to help you then what will you will do for you. on that particular night i'm not
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particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaks and some of the people died now being an autopsy surgeon it was my moral duty to find out what the cause of death was. after analysis it was established that cyanide was present to get along with nearly twenty nine components are to which it teams were deadly. like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse effect on their genes so similarly this adverse effect of the gas is causing genetic mutation in india. would like that we don't speak about bhopal because it's not a good image of all india in america they don't want to talk about because in spite of the fact that there is a wall of and fall the rest against mr one hundred and i mr anderson has retired
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in a beautiful house in long new york of course never. end it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we're going to be evicted from one of the implications for a nation which you know then more than thirty thousand people and the people who are drinking the polluted water have known about the problems this can problems that is this is through the. infections industrial. foreign investment. all of those are sick and that's the position that having to get specific cover ups are not in business to protect the population. that's what they say they are but it's usually a pretty low priority. don't take any worry that somebody stored in. a record country and stored it pretty often loses. often the loss of the work crew population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or diversity. asian food.
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history. if you. least want to respond in this stock clearly the government just pimping for dow chemicals and these are the same people who have so far stalled justice for the victims. but we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to store the mixes and we will get justice. i know they have not to go out to get on the other one. of the people that is the difference. is not. really have. no way.
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to get justice. what does it mean that. business could make its life i was hired to do emerge an acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same. i saw how a corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit than anything i just decided that i was making a profit for just the wrong people and made the decision to purchase union carbide knowing that these liabilities were outstanding so when you purchase the assets of a company purchased those liabilities. we are just asking for our right to clean water union carbide is fully exploited the sort of international dimension of this problem it informs the american courts that new york long. because these events took place in india at the same time this indian law doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above them. appropriate behavior for.
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of course international law has no force laws of force for somebody who's going first if the united states doesn't force them there's no political but they should take responsibility for their power. where dime from the water i mean no one is offering clean water they have no choice but. dow chemical go to how it go to how to how. agents of dow should be spanked. if you look at subject to the jurisdiction of india then you have to submit to the american boards and the american courts after do something about. this in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the governments of the state from central has failed to honor the supreme court order. then the problem is that by november two
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thousand and nine the government would supply clean water but that's a promise was never fulfilled and look at some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water there supplying the spikes is duty and not for drinking water all speak of some rust bucket and dad being made to finish the mission control board certified against any high concentrations of coal like you said knowingly this water is what is being supplied to locals who have given their lives. and all the. company should realize that it cannot break this country's low.
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i budget if we win this fight outsiders ok nothing again will be for years the people of. you know what we have asked for is the clean up cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and powerful toxic chemicals that are stored inside the plant. army to the groundwater which is polluted in a radius of three kilometers around the plant should be cleaned and union carbide should be paid for about two. percent to india bring them here dow chemical leave india leave india on top of that we have asked for compensation for the victims who are suffering. and it's our mission to fight for people who are weak people who cannot fight for themselves or even know how. union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years
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people will keep getting affected due to the growing to water contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases and human models. we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for gas victims. it's only by virtue of the fact of the south would. be. able to exist. that's come. out of this year afresh known bailable durrant has been issued for anderson. and if the government fails to wake up and help then we are committed to fight for the next twenty seven years against the nexus between the company and the government the process could change dramatically if the union government intervene the states have done something to them and. really i'm not and they don't have to be afforded to so much of it in the government what they have. said to the
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government if they want this ruling. and it's really i think that what it was all that. they were all the survivors in cold blood they are so good they have submitted a letter although that's all over the legal i think. that the canadians from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison frank it is a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why their mind pradesh government is saying there is no poison. but it is also true that it's a kind of poison that is leaking into our environment that is the main thing i am saying is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given you this word with all the facilities that god has given everything
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here why destroyed. felt come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. i. was not turned down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice a passion will never cleaned out. every year millions of people are dying because of his unbridled the pursuit of profit. and what inflation will follow saying is that you cannot do it in far north allowed to do it because life is sacred and that cannot be violated. i think that it is my hour the twang day with the strength from the rest of the world who will get justice from dull company that i get. the twenty fifth anniversary is just to learn mark the four year for the verse read the first of the diverse read will be as important for the final goal. i'm not going to clean the
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factory farm all those toxic floors which still pollute the water that the people have to drink. the amazon i want the world to understand the crime of these companies they profit from the analysts products as they show on t.v. . the same products boys in our lives. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world so that another book powell who will not be repeated. they were three gives us more spirit gives us more and good it's meant people i'll know what i have been for and we get more support every year than the previous year if there is justice and this world would be safer for all of us today because it would set a precedent and a parent company cannot set up
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a subsidiary somewhere in the world create a large scale environmental problem there and then when the time comes to fix liability sell off its local subsidiary and then retreat to the united states or any other developed country and a basically say that nobody can sue them here nobody can hold them accountable so that's the sort of context in which if our litigation were to be successful it would set important precedent. i am.
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